N. R. Narayana Murthy
Co-founder and CEO, Infosys
Building the Indian software industry as an export business
Rating
84Impact score
Domains
IT servicesOffshore deliveryCorporate governance
Scouting report
Founded Infosys in 1981 with six colleagues and seed money borrowed from his wife, and built it into the company that made offshore software delivery a credible global business rather than a cost-cutting rumour. Infosys became the first India-registered company listed on Nasdaq, in 1999. Domestically he was as known for insisting on Western-standard disclosure and governance at a time when neither was expected of an Indian firm.
Curator’s note
Rewired where the world’s software gets written, without writing much of it himself.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of N. R. Narayana Murthy by ps482207, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01N. R. Narayana Murthy en.wikipedia.org
- 02Infosys en.wikipedia.org